Stroom video-program
Date: 17 May - 11 June 2005
Video program in three consecutive presentations:
The Battle of Orgreave - Jeremy Deller
May 17 through 28, 2005
In the film 'The Battle of Orgreave' (2002) the British artist Jeremy Deller (winner of the Turner Prize 2004) focuses on a major mineworkers' strike in Yorkshire in 1984. What started out as a minor disturbance on a field next to a mine in the village of Orgreave, culminated in a savage battle between strikers and the police. Deller made a reconstruction of this violent confrontation, giving special attention to the miners and the policemen who were involved at the time. This 're-enactment' was filmed by the famous British director Mike Figgis. The re-enacted scenes are intercut with photographs and television footage of the real happening in 1984, thus both emphasizing and undoing the contrast between fact and fiction and between then and now. Deller is not interested in an accurate reconstruction, but aims at rekindling the discussion about this event. Thus the film activates the collective memory people have never gotten to terms with and functions as social therapy.
The Battle of Orgreave - Jeremy Deller
Director: Mike Figgis 2002
The Battle of Orgreave is an Artangel Media and Channel 4 co-commission
City at Night - Gerard Holthuis
May 31 through June 4, 2005
The film 'City at Night' (2000) by Gerard Holthuis is a thriller without a story and a portrait of a city by night. The viewer takes a boattrip through the canals of an almost deserted The Hague. 'City at Night' is part of a series of films Holthuis is making about the earth. Not people, but landscapes, buildings or machines play a leading role in these films. In addition a rough draft of a new episode of 'Careless Reef' will be shown.
Threshold to the Kingdom - Mark Wallinger
June 7 through 11, 2005
'Threshold to the Kingdom' (2000) by the British painter, sculptor and video artist Mark Wallinger shows slowed-down video images of an arrivals gate at a London airport. Automatic doors open and close slowly to let in the arriving pasengers and crew. Accompanied by the music of Allegri's 'Miserere' the passengers cross an ambiguous border. The British art critic Richard Dorment described this film as 'the most moving evocation of the afterlife created by an artist since Gustave Doré illustrated Dante's 'Paradiso'.
Copyright of the artist, courtesy Anthony Reynolds Gallery